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LIFESTYLES/RELIGION/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, June 13, 1996
Family fun day set in York
YORK - S.C. - Youth mem
bers of New House AME Zion
Church worked a carnival
event to entertain under priv
ileged children.
Forty-five youth members of
the church devoted time, ener
gy, and money to have a
Family Fim Day Carnival for
children.
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M
Mack
“Too often people say that
young black kids only get into
trouble and they are not doing
anthing constructive with
their time,” said assistant pro
ject director Rickey Williams.
“Our director, Richard Mack,
CEO of Lee Mack Cosmetics,
believes differently and he
wanted to give the youth an
opportunity to do something
constructive in their communi
ty in York.
“We have youth who want to
do good, but as adults, we have
to provide the outlet for them
to show their skills.”
“There is a bleak picture that
is painted of our children with
the focus being on them when
it comes to teen pregnancy and
teen violence,” Mack said.
Having the carnival is a cul
mination of the Bible School
program at the church.
“Usually the students will
have a party at the end of the
program, but this year the
trustees and the stewards of
the church decided to do some
thing a little different,”
Williams, 30, said. “They
decided to have a carnival and
let the students help with it.”
“The people in the church real
ly care about these children,”
Mack said. “They spend a lot of
time working with them to
show them that they too are
important members of the
church.”
The young adults were a
part of the carnival project
from the beginning.
“This carnival helped the
children to gain an under
standing of what it takes to
accomplish something,”
Williams said. “They worked
very closely with me and
Vivian Hart (Williams’ assis
tant) to make sure that this
carnival was a success.”
Youth members selected the
type of carnival package and
games they wanted, and went
door-to-door collecting dona
tions.
“While working on this
event, the youth learned how
to talk to and work with people
in corporate America and I
believe they enjoyed this more
than robbing or hurting some
one,” Mack said. “These days
you can tell a child only but so
much, but you need to work
with them and show them how
to do things properly.”
Putting on the carnival cost
over $9,000. Youth raised
$4,900 and Mack provided the
rest of the money. ‘The media
is always saying negative
things about our children. We
need to start praising them for
the good things they do,” Mack
said.
“This is something that we
look forward to doing again
next year,” Williams said.
“We need more people like
Richard Mack to be supportive
of our kids and to be good role
models for them.”
The youth members also
developed committees for
clean up crews and security. It
took three months to put the
event together.
“The objective of the church
and Richard was to instill in
the youth to do their best and
to see that goals are attain
able,” said Williams. “The
carnival will be held at the
church and it is free and open
to the public and children of
any age,” Mack said. “If we
bring only one more soul to
God because of this carnival,
then I feel that we will hav^
been successful.”
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